I still remember going to the Mantic sit and downloading their free rules.
Then they changed it and you had to buy them (for $0 USD) so had to go through their system.
Now they have some special part of the site dedicated to things like free rules.
You guessed it, you have to sign up and log in to get these "free" rules.
Are other free rules going the same way?
There is nothing stopping them putting bthem up for actual free, but them they can't spam you.
You could sign up, log in, grab what you can, then opt out, I assume. But that's a lot of rigmarole for something that used to be one click.
You cold simply ask a friend who has them to give you a copy, but that may be against the companies terms??
I know a lot of people just don't care, that's probably why they are getting away with it so easily, but free rules should cost you nothing, not even your data.
I'm not sure how they can call them free when a transaction needs to occur?
I went to comic con and wanted to play magic to get a free starter deck, but you had to scan something with a doflicky or something. Not so free there either, and discriminating against those without fancy tech, so I couldn't even get a "free" deck. How such a big company could not predict some potential customers may not have fladhy gadgets is beyond me. Perhaps it is just your data they want? Or they assume if you don't have the latest phone you can't afford their products?
To me they are all just losing customers.
I guess all the data they do get allows them to spam so many ads that maybe it makes up for those potential customers they regect?
I find it weird, especially for Mantic that was built on free rules, to not offer them any more.
Btw, I did sign up with Mantic previously for "free" rules, so I can certainly say they do spam you with e-mails.